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This month, we are reading When We Left Cuba by Chanel Cleeton, the author of Next Year in Havana, a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick. This New York Times bestselling book is set in 1960s Florida, where a young Cuban exile will risk her life—and heart—to take back her country.

ABOUT THE BOOK

The Cuban Revolution took everything from sugar heiress Beatriz Perez—her family, her people, her country. Recruited by the CIA to infiltrate Fidel Castro's inner circle and pulled into the dangerous world of espionage, Beatriz is consumed by her quest for revenge and her desire to reclaim the life she lost.

As the Cold War swells like a hurricane over the shores of the Florida Strait, Beatriz is caught between the clash of Cuban American politics and the perils of a forbidden affair with a powerful man driven by ambitions of his own. When the ever-changing tides of history threaten everything she has fought for, she must make a choice between her past and future—but the wrong move could cost Beatriz everything—not just the island she loves, but also the man who has stolen her heart...